I am afraid i don't understand it.
Input the wrong path? This will be happen rarely since the index path is
always
hard code in the config file.
And usually, users need to create a brand new index, and then append the
new document
into it.
Best Regards.
jacky
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From: "Daniel Noll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <java-user@lucene.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: parameter create in IndexWriter
> jacky wrote:
> > hi,
> > Today I found a funny thing, if "create" parameter in IndexWriter set
> > false,
> > and there is no index Segements in the Directory before, then an
> > IOException will be
> > thrown.
> > I am confused that why not using this logic : if there is a Segments,
> > then append it, create it otherwise.
> > I know we can do this in the application, but it is complex sometimes.
>
> The reason is that if we don't *want* to create a new text index (e.g.
> if the user enters the wrong path to the data) then it shouldn't be
> created automatically because it would result in trash ending up all
> over the hard disk.
>
> Daniel
>
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